Permafrost, altruism, and whale dialects
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Resistant bed-bugs ‘from tropics’
New results suggest that insecticide use in the tropics is to...
Vaccine developed against Ebola
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly...
Names proposed for new elements
Scientists have put forward their suggested names for the newest additions...
Second mission to scale deep mountains announced
Scientists are set to begin a six-week mission to explore the...
Jawbones are ‘shaped by diet’, a study finds
Diet has shaped human jaw bones; a result that could help...
CO2 climate impacts reassessed
Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide...
Jupiter moon Europa ‘has shallow lakes’
Scientists have found the best evidence yet for water just beneath...
Fukushima fallout fears over Japan farms
New research has found that radioactive material in parts of north-eastern...
Primates leapt to social living
Scientists may be a step closer to understanding the origins of...
Ancient horses’ spotted history reflected in cave art
Scientists have found evidence that leopard-spotted horses roamed Europe 25,000 years...
Pioneers boast high fertility, say scientists
Scientists have shown that women who were first to settle in...
Icelandic rocks could have steered Vikings
Vikings used rocks from Iceland to navigate the high seas, suggests...
Rare white kiwi survives surgery
The world’s only known white kiwi has survived surgery to remove...
Dolphins ‘decompress like humans’
Scientists have found tiny bubbles beneath the blubber of dolphins that...
Nobel win for crystal discovery
The Nobel prize for chemistry has gone to a single researcher...
Venus springs ozone layer surprise
Scientists have discovered that Venus has an ozone layer. The thin...
Cull ‘cannot save’ Tasmanian devil
Culling does not effectively control the contagious cancer threatening the Tasmanian...
UK invests in graphene technology
The UK government has pledged £50m towards developing spin-off technologies from...
Flowers bloom for a second time this year
UK plants are flowering for a second time this year because...
